Book Week: Mosher’s Beer for All Seasons

• What is it? A introduction to beer, arranged by season
• Who’s it For? New to intermediate readers
• Reviewer Disclosure. None. I’ve admired and ready Mosher for years, but have no personal connection. I did write one of the promo blurbs on the cover, but that’s because I thought it was a good book.
• Scope. Spans the globe

The Review
Most people who read this blog are already well-acquainted with Randy Mosher. He has published two of the best general-purpose beer books ever written, one for homebrewers (Radical Brewing) and one on appreciation (Tasting Beer). If you already own and treasure those books, this one is, paradoxically, probably not for you. It’s an introduction to the world of beer, organized, innovatively, around the seasons. 

Anyone who wants to offer newbies a comprehensive introduction to beer is confronted with the huge task of how to arrange the material so that it is adequately complete, somehow coherent, and ultimately …